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2 Samuel 13:15

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly. It is not unusual for persons instigated by violent and irregular passions to go from one extreme to other. In Amnon's case the sudden revulsion is easily accounted for; the atrocity of his conduct, with all the feelings of shame, remorse, and dread of exposure and punishment, now burst upon his mind, rendering the presence of Tamar intolerably painful to him.

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See also 2 Samuel 13:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Samuel 13:15. _HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY_] Amnon's conduct to his sister was not only brutal but inexplicable. It would be easy to form _conjectures_ concerning the _cause_, but we can arrive at n...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. FURTHER CHASTISEMENT: AMNON, TAMAR, AND ABSALOM CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Amnon's wicked desire (2 Samuel 13:1)_ 2. The incest (2 Samuel 13:6) 3. His hatred (2 Samuel 13:15) 4. Amnon murd

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    2 SAMUEL 13. AMNON, TAMAR, AND ABSALOM (J). 2 SAMUEL 13:1. Amnon, David's eldest son, forces his half-sister, Tamar, the full sister of Absalom. He might have married her (2 Samuel 3:5 *) but did not...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _hated her exceedingly_ "Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris." "It is characteristic of human nature to hate one whom you have injured." Tac. _Agric._c. 42....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 318 AMNON AND TAMAR 2 Samuel 13:15. _Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her, was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her._ THE word of God wil...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN AMNON HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY— The flux and reflux of passion in a brutal breast are here finely painted. Commentators are at a loss to account for this sudden and excessive hatred; and, indeed, th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Absalom Kills Amnon._ 2 Samuel 13:15-29 15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her _was_ greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CRIME OF AMNON, AND ABSALOM'S VENGEANCE This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 13 AMNON AND TAMAR V1 David had a son called Absalom and another son called Amnon. Absalom had a beautiful sister called Tamar. Am...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY. — “It is characteristic of human nature to hate one whom you have injured” (Tacitus, _quoted by_ Kirkpatrick), This result shows that Amnon was governed, not by love, but by mer...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּשְׂנָאֶ֣הָ אַמְנֹ֗ון שִׂנְאָה֙ גְּדֹולָ֣ה מְאֹ֔ד...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVII. _ ABSALOM AND AMNON._ 2 Samuel 13:1. LIVING sorrow, says the proverb, is worse than a dead. The dead sorrow had been very grievous to David; what the living sorrow, of which this chapt...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ABSALOM EXECUTES JUDGMENT 2 Samuel 13:15 When men yield to irregular passion, they go from one extreme to the other-from wicked love to wicked hate. If women would but realize this, how often it wou...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The story of Amnon's sin is of a sin committed by a child of David similar to his own. When the story was told to him, we are told that he was wroth. We are not told that he disciplined Amnon. How cou...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Before. Such changes are not unfrequent in those who give way to disordered passions, as Aristotle (prob. iv.) proves. Semiramis slew her lovers, and among the rest her own son. (Tirinus) --- God cau...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (15) Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. Can the mind conceive an...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13. The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings go...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN AMNON HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY,.... Having gratified his lust, his conscience stung him for it, that he could not bear the sight of the object that had been the instrument of it; and it may be the s...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her [was] greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. Ver. 15. _Then Amnon hated...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then Amnon hated her exceedingly_ His mind, which at first had been impelled by lust, was now agitated by remorse, which drove it to a different extreme, like the vibration of a pendulum. The horror...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Amnon louing Tamar, by Ionadabs counsell faining himselfe sicke, rauisheth her. 15 Hee hateth her, and shamefully turneth her away. 19 Absalom entertaineth her, and concealeth his purpose. 23 At...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AMNON SPURNS TAMAR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then Amnon, having gratified his bestial lust, HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY, this being the usual consequence of a relation such as pictured in this chapter, SO THAT THE HATRED WHEREWITH HE HATED HER WAS GRE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    WICKEDNESS INVADING DAVID'S FAMILY David did not have to wait long to see the sad governmental results of his sin begin to be manifest in his own family His son Ammon was so attracted by the beauty o...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    EXCEEDINGLY: _ Heb._ with great hatred greatly...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-20 From henceforward David was followed with one trouble after another. Adultery and murder were David's sins, the like sins among his children were the beginnings of his punishment: he was too ind...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEN AMNON HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY; partly because, his lust being now satisfied, his mind and conscience had a true and clear prospect and deep sense of the natural turpitude and baseness of the action...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Samuel 13:15 Amnon H550 hated H8130 (H8799) exceedingly H3966 H1419 hatred H8135 hated H8130 (H8804) greater...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Ammon's crime. Absalom's vengeance for Tamar's wrong. CHARACTERS: David, Absalom, Ammon, Tamar, Jonadab. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts are their own punishment and not only war against the sou...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Samuel 13:2. _He fell sick for his sister Tamar._ Most young men who have come to ruin, have followed some blind and impetuous passion. 2 Samuel 13:13. _The king will not withhold me from thee._ In...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Absalom the son of David had a fair sister._ THE WICKEDNESS OF AMNON No other book but the Bible dare have inserted such a chronicle as this and yet have hoped to retain the attention and confidence...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 13:1 Nathan had warned David of “evil... out of your own house” (2 Samuel 12:11) as a result of his sin with Bathsheba. Chapters...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 13:15 THEN AMNON HATED HER. Having succeeded in seducing Tamar, Amnon’s professed love for her quickly turned to hatred. THIS WRONG... IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER. If a man sed...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 13:1. “ABSALOM” and “TAMAR” were the children of Maacha, and “AMNON” was David’s eldest son by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess (see chap 2 Samuel 3:2). 2 Samuel 13:2

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 13:1 AFTER THIS. This phrase, as we have seen on 2 Samuel 10:1, has little chronological force, but the date of the sad event which formed the second stage in David's punishment c...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So we find that the problems begin very soon thereafter. David had a son by the name of Amnon, and Amnon was talking with a man who was called his friend (2 Samuel 13:1; 2 Samuel 13:3), Yet, I would c...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 23:17...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hated her — By the just judgment of God both upon Amnon and David, that so the sin might be made publick, and way for the succeeding tragedies....

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